The Upper Limb Library / Below the Elbow Amputations

Each individual has a different experience after an amputation. Leaern about other peoples’ experiences to give you a better idea of what to expect.

Exercise should be performed with proper body mechanics and a balanced posture to prevent injury – best achieved by wearing a prosthesis.

As upper limb specialists, we know how to create a functioning device, but our patients are the ones who know the most about how they’d like it to look.

Here we talk about how to ride a bike with the assistance of an upper limb prosthesis and discuss what's necessary depending on the limb difference level.

Is it possible to bowl if you’ve lost your dominant hand? Can you bowl a partial hand limb difference? Can you bowl with a prosthesis? Yes!

Wrist disarticulation is the medical term that’s used when the structures of the hand are absent due to a congenital limb difference or an amputation.

Like the ETD, Electronic Terminal Device, the ETD2 is rugged and water resistant, but comes in a modified, shorter design.

A below-elbow, transradial amputation can occur at any point on the forearm from just below the elbow joint to the wrist joint. Learn more.

We’ve created this article to walk you through all your different options based on your amputation level, with an illustration and patient examples.

Abram, a welder by trade who goes off-roading on the weekends, picked up his third customized prosthesis from our Dallas center and told us about them.